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Friday, February 8, 2019 2:51 pm

I was taken aback when I read “the best Super Bowl ad ever” by Jim Mullen. I am shocked that he is so closed minded about marijuana and how it isn’t harmful, claiming alcohol is so much worse. He wants to know why networks won’t show a commercial for marijuana during the Super Bowl like beer ads.

He states he has yet to meet a marijuana addict because it is non-addictive. Yet, you will know an alcoholic when you see one. I would just like to inform you Jim, there is something called a high functioning alcoholic. You would never be able to tell that they can’t go without a drink. So no, you don’t know every alcoholic just like you don’t know every marijuana addict. Yes, it is addictive!

According to Jim, the only danger stemming from marijuana are drug wars. Marijuana has caused car wrecks because it alters your perception like alcohol. Babies have tested positive for marijuana when they were born, which has caused cognitive and neurological effects like alcohol. Yet, families are torn apart, laws being broken, people in rehab, and lie after lie sounds like effects of addiction to me.

You also mentioned how a doctor never prescribes beer for anything, but medical marijuana is prescribed all the time. I have worked in healthcare for more than 15 years and I have seen a doctor prescribe beer in the hospital for several needs. I have also seen a doctor prescribe marinol, a synthetic form of cannabis.

It seems for an educated writer, you are uneducated in this matter. You should have done a little more research before getting mad that the networks were not going to show your precious marijuana commercial. One thing you did get right is the warning that should go along with alcohol, prescriptions, and marijuana. It should read: “Warning, may become addicted, homeless, jobless, may also cause depression, carelessness, selfishness, crimes, loss of family, and death.”

They have their medical uses and also their downfalls. It’s all in how and why you use them. Its also in how and why you don’t use them.